Top 8 Castles around gmina Głogówek

Beautiful rhododendrons blooming in May. Lots of people on weekends.

The facility is not open to visitors, it is a pity that the State is not able to take care of it and it is slowly falling into ruin.

The Większyce Palace Restaurant is located in a restored 19th-century palace, whose history dates back to 1852. Renovation works started in 2004 restored its former glory, and the original frescoes and marble stairs create a unique atmosphere of the interior. Guests can use seven elegant rooms, ideal for various occasions. The restaurant is famous for its carefully selected cuisine, wide range of wines and professional service, which makes it a perfect place for both formal meetings and intimate dinners.

In Biała, two crosses stand to this day, the third comes from Frącki (a hamlet of Pogórze), but is currently located on private property in Brzeźnica. Penitential crosses are "relics of medieval law". Each of these objects has its own interesting history documented in court records or passed down in folk legends. At the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries, judicial law was introduced, among other places, in Silesia. Earlier, the principle was simple: for the victim's death, the killer paid with their life. The new law led to a detailed examination of the causes of murder, e.g., acting in a fit of passion was taken into account. This allowed some perpetrators to avoid the death penalty and reach an agreement with the victim's family, the so-called "penitential treaty". The perpetrator had to fulfill many obligations set by the court and the family. Basic ones included, among others: covering the costs of the victim's funeral, supporting the deceased's children until they came of age, transferring a specified sum of money to the family, ordering and paying for a specified number of memorial masses, undertaking a pedestrian pilgrimage to the then places of religious worship, e.g., Jerusalem, Rome, Aachen, or later Częstochowa and St. Anne's Mount. One of the perpetrator's most important obligations was to personally or commission the creation of a penitential cross from stone and its erection at the scene of the crime. The crosses were made of stone characteristic of the given area (sandstone, conglomerate, limestone, or granite). The height ranged from 30 to 250 cm, the width from 30 to 120 cm, the thickness from 9 to 60 cm. The Biała crosses are among the oldest preserved in the Opolszczyzna region. One: by the south wall of the castle has a shape similar to a clover leaf; with dimensions of 97 cm (height), 20 cm (thickness), 33 cm (arm span). It is carved in granite, belongs to the group of the oldest, which is why time has blurred the image of the murder weapon. An interesting story is associated with its origin and discovery. It was the only "missing" cross in the inventory of these objects in the Prudnik region. It was only known that it should be somewhere on the Biała-Wasiłowice-Śmicz route. In 1976, after six days of searching, Komarnicki with a group of Biała high school students found the stone cross. It lay in a roadside ditch about 400m from the town limits. It was covered with earth and barely visible. Komarnicki decided to move the cross to a safer place so that it would not disappear again. The chosen location was next to the Prószków Castle, where a primary and secondary school was located at the time. However, the Provincial Conservator of Monuments in Opole ordered that the cross be returned to its place or handed over to the museum in Prudnik. Komarnicki did not want to agree to this. Eventually, the commotion subsided, and the cross did not change its location until the castle was taken over by a new owner – the company "Moda Polska". The object began to be renovated, and the construction crew wanted to use the cross as building material. It was managed to be saved again, though not without losses: the cross was broken into two parts. Fearing destruction, it was then moved to the intersection of today's streets: Opolskiej and Moniuszki. It stood there until one of the broken parts disappeared. The missing part was found at the municipal landfill. Then, the local stonemason master Jan Gacki took up the renovation of the cross, joining the two broken parts. In this way, this stone cross was saved for the third time and moved again under the castle wall, where it stands to this day. Next to the cross, on a granite slab, there is a barely visible inscription "PENITENTIAL CROSS, 16TH C., CARE BTKO". The second cross is located at the intersection of Szynowice and Opolskiej streets, under a votive cross, surrounded by white pebbles and enclosed by a low metal fence. According to folk legends, a crime occurred at this spot where a merchant died while going to the market in Biała. The cross has a broken arm – it was probably a sign for travelers about the plague that raged in Biała in 1633. Its dimensions are: 80 cm (height), 45 cm (arm span), 18 cm (thickness).

From the 13th century, Biała was the seat of a castellany. The current brick castle was built in the Renaissance style, probably on the initiative of the Opole line of the Piasts before 1532. Originally, it had two single-tract wings - the current eastern and southern ones - which enclosed a small courtyard and had semicircular arcades on that side. From 1564, it belonged to the Prószkowscy family, first as a pledge, and from 1606 as their property. Around 1640, the Prószkowscy family expanded the complex in the Baroque style, adding a new double-tract wing from the west, with a tower built on its corner. In this form, only renovated, it has survived to this day. In 1747, Antoni Prószkowski's widow sold the castle and estates to Bartłomiej Oderfeld, and after nine years, it came into the hands of Rudolf Matuschek from Bohemia. The next owner from 1841 was Ferdinand Rudolf von Gersdorff. In 1872, the castle became the property of the town and from 1878, for the next half-century, it was used for educational purposes, housing a teacher training college. In the 19th century, during a renovation, the arcades were bricked up, creating an additional communication corridor along the 16th-century wings. After World War II, the buildings were used as warehouses for the Moda Polska company, and since the end of the 20th century, they have not been in use. Unfortunately, it is falling into ruin.

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Moschen // Moszna. The name of the village probably comes from the surname Moschin. According to legend, Moszna belonged to the Knights Templar in the Middle Ages. In 1679, Moszna was owned by the von Skall family. In 1723, after the death of the owner Ursula Maria von Skall, Moszna passed into the hands of her cousin, the court marshal of Frederick the Great - Georg Wilhelm von Reisewitz. The castle - the central part of the current castle - dates from this period. In 1771, the von Reisewitz family lost Moszna and the property was purchased at auction by Heinrich Leopold von Seherr-Thoss. In 1853, Karl Gotthard Seherr-Thoss sold Moszna to Heinrich von Erdmannsdorf, who sold it in 1866 to Hubert von Tiele-Winckler from Miechowice. His son Franz Hubert was the originator and builder of the castle, which was built after the partial burnt down of the Baroque castle in 1896. Franz Hubert's grandfather, Franz Winckler, worked as a miner in the mine in Miechowice. After the death of his wife and mine owner, he married his rich widow Maria Aresin. In 1840, the Prussian king granted him the title of nobility. The heiress of the fortune was his daughter Valeska, who married Hubert von Tiele in 1854, who bought Moszna in 1866. After the marriage, they used a combined surname - Tiele-Winckler. Hubert died in 1893, and his estate passed to his eldest son Franz-Hubert according to the majority principle. In 1895, he was ennobled by the title of count awarded to him by Emperor Wilhelm. A year later, after a fire, he rebuilt and expanded his residence. In 1904, and later in 1911 and 1912, the count was visited by the ruler of Germany for hunting, and the west wing was built for him in 1911–1913. Franz Hubert's son Claus-Peter spent part of his ancestors' fortune in the interwar period. When he died childless, he adopted his cousin, whose son was to inherit the estate and the title of count. His family lived in Moszna Castle until the end of the war and fled to Germany to escape the approaching Red Army. After the war, the fate of the castle was different - from 1972 it has been operating as a hospital for the treatment of neuroses. Moszna - According to Franz Hubert's imagination, the castle has 365 rooms and 99 towers, for which it is famous. The unique architecture of the castle attracts crowds of tourists every year.

The Obertorhaus, built at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries and rebuilt in 1508, is a square quarry stone building with an attic and loopholes. It is the last remnant of the former city wall, which existed from the 14th century to 1829 and surrounded the city with a total of four entrance gates.